Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-03-26
THE MIDLAND IS HERE.
The Surveyors Arrive This Morning
and Leave for Parley's Park
at About Noon.
They Come and Go So Quietly That
They Avoid the WOuld-be
interviewer.
Talk in the Wind About the BOOM
Sales and RumOrs Of Sales
Fill the Air.

Some little stir was created IN the
southeast part OF the town this morning
by the arrival OF surveying party, which
upon inquiry turned out to be none other
than that of the Midland road. The
party arrived here from Price Station on
the D. &R. G. this morning and after
camping in the vicinity above mentioned
for three or four hours, they started south
on their way to Parley's Park. A
DEMOCRAT reporter who got wind OF the
fact that the party was in town, made
for the spot but found that the campers
had stolen away. This fact, how
ever, was but little worse to
the reportorial constituencies than
would have been the mum bluff that
railroad surveyors always give those seek
ing information.
Nevertheless, the fact that the party
was here, and the further fact that they
are the Midland surveyors, cannot be
doubted, and with this assurance of the
early arrival of the new road our citizens
will be content.
THE d. & r. G..
Some days ago The DEMOCRAT gave
some facts from good authority to the
effect that the D. & r. G. surveyors were
making their contour survey of the new
route to California, and that everything
pointed toward the commencement o.
work on the extension at an early date
On top of this statement comes some
thing that will make the most doubtful
cease to doubt.
1t is stated with superlative degree
of positiveness that Mr.. Joe Sharp, o.
Pleasant Valley, has taken contract tc
deliver
ONE MILLION TIES
To the Little Giant road in Spanish Fork
canyon. If any one can give satisfac
tory explanation of this fact without ad
mitting that the road is pushing toward
the coast, he is respectfully invited tC
come around and let THE DEMOCRAT
know it.
REAL ESTATE TALK.
"Keep it up" is the salutation giver
DEMOCRAT representatives as they g
their rounds among capitalists and rea
estate men in search of "boom" items
"You're on the right track. Don't gel
discouraged and all will come out right. .
Eastern parties are just swarming about
me-" said one real estate man to-day
'and if there amt something in the
wind I've missed my guess"
1t is certain that there never was &
time before when there were so many
parties in this city looking for invest
ments, and what makes things look
brighter than ever is the fact that loca
parties are beginning to take an interes
never before shown. There is not day
passes without something big in the way
a prospective transfer coming to the notice
of THE DEMOCRAT, and when these mat
tiers are finally settled, there will be some
revelations that will startle the natives
If there is a croaker in the town who
thinks this boom is all wind, let him keeI
his seat a little while longer, and if he il
not raised into the air by startling facts
The DEMOCRAT will eat its hat.
RUMoR.
There was a rumor on the street yes
terday that Titles Row on Second Soutl
Street had been sold to prominent resi-
dent Gentle. Mr.. Paramount Little wa
asked about the matter to-day and saiC
that there was nothing in it. III,
added, however, that he had beef
asked what he would sell TO
by a certain party here and had given hi
figure, but has not heard any more o
the matter. So it will be seen that
though there is really nothing in the ru
NOR now going around, it had its founda
ton in a truth which may yet develop
into something worthy of notice.